The Shining Trench of Chairman Gonzalo (2007)
A recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement in their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People's War-- "shining trenches of combat". This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.
Director:
Jim Finn
Writer:
Jim Finn
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Magali Arreola as |
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Yazmín Chávez as |
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Isela Cruz as |
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Denisse del Río as |
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Sophina James as |
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Amanda Louis as |
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Gabriela Mayorga as |
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Rebeca Mayorga as |
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Isabela Montes as |
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Lisandra Tena as |
| Camera | Jim Finn | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Dean DeMatteis | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Jim Finn | Director |
| Sound | Jim Becker | Music |
| Writing | Jim Finn | Screenplay |
| Sound | Colleen Burke | Music |